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Special Alert: SCOTUS Vacates Ninth Circuit Decision in Case Alleging Procedural FCRA Violations
On May 16, the United States Supreme Court issued an opinion vacating the Ninth Circuit's 2014 ruling that a plaintiff had standing under Article III of the Constitution to sue an alleged consumer reporting agency as defined by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), for alleged procedural violations of the FCRA, 15 U.S.C § 1681 et seq. Spokeo v. Robins, No. 13-1339 (U.S. May 16, 2016). According to plaintiff Thomas Robins, the reporting agency violated his individualized (rather than collective) statutory rights by reporting inaccurate credit information regarding Robins's wealth, job status, graduate degree, and marital status in willful noncompliance with certain FCRA requirements. In a 6-2 opinion delivered by Justice Alito, the Court ruled that Robins could not establish standing by alleging a bare procedural violation because Article III requires a concrete injury even in the context of statutory violation. Here, the Ninth Circuit erred in failing to consider separately both the "concrete and particularized" aspects of the injury-in-fact component of standing. The Court opined that the Ninth Circuit's analysis was incomplete:
[T]he injury-in-fact requirement requires a plaintiff to allege an injury that is both "concrete and particularized." Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services (TOC), Inc., 528 U.S. 167, 180-181 (2000) (emphasis added). The Ninth Circuit's analysis focused on the second characteristic (particularity), but it overlooked the first (concreteness). We therefore…remand for the Ninth Circuit to consider both aspects of the injury-in-fact requirement.


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Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American epic war drama film set during the Invasion of Normandy in World War II. Directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat, the film is notable for its graphic and realistic portrayal of war, and for the intensity of its opening 27 minutes, which includes a depiction of the Omaha Beach assault of June 6, 1944. It follows United States Army Rangers Captain John H. Miller (Tom Hanks) and a squad (Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, Giovanni Ribisi, Adam Goldberg, and Jeremy Davies) as they search for a paratrooper, Private first class James Francis Ryan (Matt Damon), who is the last-surviving brother of four servicemen. Wikipedia
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The Lost Weekend
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The classic tale of one man's struggle with alcoholism, this revolutionary novel remains Charles Jackson's best-known book—a daring autobiographical work that paved the way for contemporary addiction literature.
It is 1936, and on the East Side of Manhattan, a would-be writer named Don Birnam decides to have a drink. And then another, and then another, until he's in the midst of what becomes a five-day binge. The Lost Weekend moves with unstoppable speed, propelled by a heartbreaking but unflinching truth. It catapulted Charles Jackson to fame, and endures as an acute study of the ravages of alcoholism, as well as an unforgettable parable of the condition of the modern man.
Blake Bailey is the author of biographies of John Cheever, Richard Yates, and Charles Jackson and is the authorized biographer of Philip Roth. He lives in Virginia, where he is the Mina Hohenberg Darden Professor of Creative Writing at Old Dominion University.
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It comes down to DRM.
It comes down to DRM.
Most of _everything_ is outside Silicon Valley.
Is this news to anyone?
It is to many inside the Valley.
Most people have some time they fritter frivolously.
Try saying "fritter frivolously on Facebook" ten times fast.
It is Their Site.
How many billion users can you have, before this no longer applies?
Infinite... it's still their site. Those billions of users are free to move to another site that better meets their needs.
Who was Facebook discriminating against exactly?
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Today we're announcing an experiment in Chrome where a small fraction of connections between desktop Chrome and Google's servers will use a post-quantum key-exchange algorithm in addition to the elliptic-curve key-exchange algorithm that would typically be used. By adding a post-quantum algorithm on top of the existing one, we are able to experiment without affecting user security. The post-quantum algorithm might turn out to be breakable even with today's computers, in which case the elliptic-curve algorithm will still provide the best security that today's technology can offer. Alternatively, if the post-quantum algorithm turns out to be secure then it'll protect the connection even against a future, quantum computer.
If I read this correctly, they are using "New Hope" in combination with an existing algorithm.
Somebody can replace the locks in your car with new locks that both your keys and their keys will unlock.
They already had opt-in filtering, they're just making it opt-out.
Windows, OS X, Linux (I think, but couldn't find out definitively), Android, iOS, and Windows Phone.
Not wanting to be your slave != feminism
In so far as WhatsApp is concerned, there's nothing stopping WhatsApp from changing the app so that both needs are served.
Except that no one has ever found a way to create a backdoor that only law enforcement can use. An encryption backdoor can't distinguish between "good guys" and "bad guys."
The challenge for services using encryption is to ensure that only the parties that have a right to know what is being sent are aware of it and nobody else. That includes keeping out hackers *AND* the CIA/DHS/NSA (that don't have any rights to that material) as well as allowing the FBI *ONLY* when so authorized.
Same problem... a backdoor built for the "the FBI *ONLY* when so authorized" can be abused by the NSA or by FBI when not authorized. If you poke a hole in a wall, the hole doesn't know or care who looks through it.
Please look up the definition of treason. Even if what you said were true (it's not), that's not treason.
John Scott approves of your idea...
Unlike governments, corporations have no power to imprison or execute you. And no one's forcing you to use any of the services you list, whereas you can't opt-out of goverment surveillence.
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Established in 1985 as Nantwich Bridge Club, we attract members from Nantwich and its surrounding area. Our aim is to provide encouragement and facilities for club members to play duplicate contract bridge and to support the game of bridge in the community. We are affiliated to the EBU.
We play duplicate every Monday night at Wybunbury Village Hall and hold a range of competitions through the year. We welcome visitors and new members.
Duplicate Bridge play commences at 7pm prompt.
Congratulations to Clive Hutchinson on winning this cup in 2016.
The club does not offer teaching but the Crewe & Nantwich U3A runs a tutorial class in Wybunbury Village Hall. The contact is Marion Wade 01270 - 624348
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The CSU Extension in Gilpin County helps mountain residents of all ages improve their quality of life by offering a website, classes, and programs, that provide unbiased, research-based information on forestry, wildfire, wildlife, mountain gardening, noxious weeds and many other issues.
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The classic idea of deadbeat control is extended to linear multivariable discrete-time generalized state-space systems using algebraic methods. The asymptotic properties of the linear quadratic regulator theory are used to obtain the classes of deadbeat controllers using stabilizing full semistate feedback. The solution is constructed from a `cheap control' problem. Both semistate and output deadbeat control laws are considered. The main design criteria are to drive the semistate and/or outputs of the system to zero in minimum time and that the closed-loop system be internally stable. Unique properties of these types of control laws are discussed. For semistate deadbeat control, all the (dynamic) poles including the ones at infinity are moved to the origin, whereas for output deadbeat, some of the finite transmission zeros are canceled. Numerically reliable algorithms are developed to solve both problems


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This past Saturday, the Washington Capitals held their annual Red Rocker tryouts....
For those who follow such things, Mike Green showed up for today's tilt versus the Islanders with a new haircut. Since his game has finally started to return, maybe he figured it was time to go back to the old style. We have photographic proof, because of course we do :
After the game, Green tweeted the reason for the haircut. Apparently his helmet didn't fit anymore, so the flowing locks had to go :
kicking it old school. Helmet wouldn't fit anymore so I needed a hair cut. I hope everyone enjoyed the game shout out to @holts170 #daman
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Excellent!!!! What else can I say.. We loved the combination of flavours in the meatballs themselves but that Jam is to die for. I did make one change in the jam and that was to add a little bit of chili flakes. It added just a little kick after it, I made these as part of a nibbles, finger food night and boy did they go down well. We had already started on the jam last night with some lamb patties I had made and every single one of us has fallen in love with the jam. I did find I had to cook my jam for way longer, to ge the desired consistency, I found about 1 hour, but the end result was outstanding. The meatballs themselves were packed with so much flavour, they were good to eat just by themselves, but the jam for us, just put the dish over the edge. A cracking recipe Cheers Jan
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The Plaza at Lexington Green Welcomes Peacocks & Pearls, Reaches 100% Occupancy
Posted by NAI Isaac at Thursday, June 09, 2016
The Plaza at Lexington Green, one of Lexington's newest retail destinations, is set to welcome its latest tenant, Peacocks & Pearls to Suite 170. The new women's boutique is slated to open late summer and will offer fun ladies' clothing, accessories, jewelry and affordable fashion for women of all ages. "We have enjoyed our relationship with NAI Isaac and especially Paul Ray Smith and Jamie Adams. They provided excellent service and were easy to work with. They are very knowledgeable about the Lexington market, communicate well and they provide results. We are extremely pleased with the tenants at The Plaza at Lexington Green and appreciate all the work they did to accomplish 100% occupancy for us. We would certainly use NAI Isaac again." stated representatives of Lexington Green, L.P., owners of the center. NAI Isaac also negotiated leases with Vetdata, Mellow Mushroom, and Sola Salon Studios.
The Plaza at Lexington Green is a redevelopment of the former Lexington Green cinema building, located between Fayette Mall, Target, The Mall at Lexington Green and Hilton Suites Hotel. Paul Ray Smith, Executive Vice President and Jamie Adams, Senior Associate, represented Lexington Green, L.P. during the lease negotiations.
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Plans to demolish and rebuild a signature downtown location have created a buzz around Lexington. NAI Isaac recently sold +/-0.3795 acres located at 367-375 East Main Street and 107-111 Eastern Avenue to local developers who plan to construct a new 5-story mixed use building. Per the development plan, the first floor will house a bank and the second through fifth floors will house 24 two-bedroom condominiums. The building will also feature a rooftop garden and recreation area. Plans for a two-story parking garage are also underway.
Developers worked with CMW, Inc. to create the building's concept known as vintage modern. The building's design will fuse historic architectural touches with modern features to create a building that has the aesthetics of the historic downtown "look" and the convenience of modern design. According to new owner developer Jeff Morgan, only two floors remain available. All other spaces have commitments. For more details concerning Lexington's latest downtown development, check out this article from the Lexington Herald-Leader.
Al Isaac, President, Bruce Isaac, SIOR, CCIM, Senior Vice President and Jamie Adams, LEED AP, Senior Associate represented the Owner during the sale transaction. Tyce McCullough with Rector Hayden assisted the Buyer.
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NAI Isaac Announces Prince Cuts Barber Shop Expansion at French Quarter Square
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NAI Isaac recently leased an additional ±1,151 sf to Prince Cuts Barber Shop at French Quarter Square, located at 2573 Richmond Road in Lexington, Kentucky. The expansion, slated for completion during Spring 2016, will triple the size of their location. For more information on Prince Cuts and the services they offer, visit www.princecuts.com. Paul Ray Smith, Executive Vice President and J.L. Cannady, Associate with NAI Isaac Commercial Properties represented the Landlord, RBHV Lexington Retail, LLC during the lease transaction.
French Quarter Square, a 37,500 office and retail development owned by RBHV Lexington Retail, LLC, is located at 2573 Richmond Road and is home to Doubletree Guest Suites, Panera Bread, Posh Salon & Spa and Sun Tan City. For more information regarding current leasing opportunities at French Quarter Square, visit our website at www.naiisaac.com.
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NAI Isaac Leases Space for Office Depot Distribution Location
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NAI Isaac recently leased a ±7,600 sf property located at 549 Buck Place in Lexington, Kentucky. The property has been leased to Office Depot, Inc. who plans to utilize the site as a distribution location. Bruce Isaac, SIOR, CCIM, Senior Vice President and Jamie Adams, LEED AP, Senior Associate with NAI Isaac Commercial Properties represented the Tenant and Matt Stone with SVN Stone Commercial Real Estate represented the Owner during the lease transaction.
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
NAI Isaac Brings Associates in Pediatric Therapy to Southland Drive
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NAI Isaac recently assisted Associates in Pediatric Therapy, LLC (APT) in a Lexington Market search and securing new clinic space located at 268 Southland Drive. APT is a therapeutic clinic practice providing services for children with special needs in Metro Louisville, Lexington and Southern Indiana. Their new location is slated to open in March 2016. For more information on APT, visit www.kidtherapy.org.
Jim Holbrook, Associate, and Bruce Isaac, CCIM, SIOR, Senior Vice President represented the Tenant during the lease transaction.
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Building Impress and PowerPoint Slides with LaTeX and Perl
Let's begin with a story. Here's what happened: my second book, coauthored with Dr Michael Moorhouse, finally was finished. I had spent an extra six months on it, which meant it now was at least six months late. I had spent every spare minute typesetting, proofreading, writing, manually converting Michael's Microsoft Word files to LaTeX, reading and then re-reading. Then, I'd proofread it all again. When it was done and dusted, I was jaded. Soon after, I received the final proof of the cover. And there it was—printed right on the back cover—a promise to provide Microsoft PowerPoint slides on the Web site for use with the text. It was too late to change the cover, which meant I was committed to providing the slides one way or another. I had forgotten that we had decided to do this at the start of the project, more than 18 months prior.
Eighteen months ago, PowerPoint was the de facto standard slide production technology within the academic community. Today, PDF is popular too. As with many in the Linux community, I already had made the move to OpenOffice.org, leaving PowerPoint behind. With 20 chapters in the book, I estimated it would take at least 20 days' effort to produce the slides manually. The thought of doing this work with PowerPoint was not something I relished. I could work within OpenOffice.org Impress, of course, and then export to PowerPoint when finished, but this idea didn't sit well with me, either. The basic problem was I knew all the content already was in the LaTeX files and having to reproduce it using a slide production application left me feeling even more drained than I already was. If only I could find a way to extract the content programmatically from my LaTeX files and populate PowerPoint slides with it—that would improve things considerably.
Searching Google resulted in frustration. Perhaps not surprisingly, details of the PowerPoint file format were hard to come by. I did find a file in Microsoft Windows Help format that described the XML standard for Microsoft Office documents, to which PowerPoint documents can be exported. Unfortunately, it was a large, complicated piece of writing. Having decided I wasn't going to get anywhere on Google, I surfed over to Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Perl, my programming language of choice, has been hooked up to all types of file formats and other computing forms. If anyone had played with Perl and PowerPoint, details of the work would be available on CPAN. Unfortunately, this search also drew a blank.
Then it occurred to me: if I could work with the open and widely published OpenOffice.org Impress document format, I then could export my Impress slides to PowerPoint as a last step. A quick perusal of the OpenOffice.org Web site uncovered the official XML description of the OpenOffice.org file formats. Weighing in at more than 600 pages, the standard is bigger than my book!
The XML document is well written, but it's pretty heavy going. I surfed back to CPAN to see if any other programmers had taken the time to work with OpenOffice.org formats and were gracious enough to upload their work to CPAN. This time I wasn't disappointed. Jean-Marie Gouarne of Genicorp recently had released the OpenOffice::OODoc module, a Perl interface to the OpenOffice.org formats. Given an existing document, OpenOffice::OODoc can manipulate the content, adding to, deleting from and updating the disk file as need be.
I started with a simple filter, written in Perl, that takes a LaTeX file as input and produces the slide content as output in a customized textual form. By producing a text file, I ensured that any text editor could be used to edit the output from the filter, fine-tuning the textual content as necessary. Once happy with the textual content, another filter, also written in Perl, uses the textual content to create an Impress presentation. The Impress presentation then can be opened in Impress and exported to PowerPoint and/or PDF format.
I made a conscious effort to keep my presentations as simple as possible and decided to have only three slide types. The title_slide would contain the title of the chapter at the start of the presentation file. Within the presentation, the title_slide would do double duty as a placeholder for any graphic images associated with the chapter, with one title_slide created per graphic image. The bullet_slide would contain section titles as its slide heading and subsection titles as bullet items. Finally, the sourcecode_slide would provide a mono-spaced, verbatim slide used for program listings.
I used Impress to create a three-slide presentation manually, which I called blank.sxi. Each of the created slides corresponded to each of the three slide types described in the last paragraph. I planned to clone this presentation every time I programmatically created a presentation for each of my chapters. By cloning, I'd ensure that all of the presentations conformed to a standardized look and feel.
Great ideas, thanks!
Great ideas, thanks!
getcontent script
I am not my self a perl programmer. A way to obtain a workable getcontent script?
Missing getcontent script
Sorry ... the script appears to be missing from the download. Here it is:
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
# The "getcontent" script: Given a LaTeX file on the command-line,
# extract it's textual content.
# By Paul Barry, email@example.com
use strict;
use constant TRUE => 1;
use constant FALSE => 0;
my $in_verbatim = FALSE;
my $in_maxim = FALSE;
my $graphic_name = '';
while ( <> )
if ( $in_maxim )
if ( /\\end\{maxim\}/ )
print "STOPMAXIM\n";
$in_maxim = FALSE;
if ( $in_verbatim )
if ( /\\end\{verbatim\}/ || /\\end\{alltt\}/ )
print "STOPCODE\n";
$in_verbatim = FALSE;
if ( /\\chapter\{(.*)\}/ )
print "CHAPTERTITLE: $1\n"; next;
if ( /\\section\{(.*)\}/ )
print "BULLETTITLE: $1\n"; next;
if ( /\\subsection\{(.*)\}/ )
print "BULLETCONTENT: $1\n"; next;
if ( /\\begin\{verbatim\}/ || /\\begin\{alltt\}/ )
print "STARTCODE\n";
$in_verbatim = TRUE; next;
if ( /\\begin\{maxim\}/ )
print "STARTMAXIM\n";
$in_maxim = TRUE; next;
if ( /images\/(.*?)\}/ )
$graphic_name = $1; next;
if ( /\\caption\{\\label\{/ )
print "GRAPHICCAPTION: $1\n";
print "GRAPHICNAME: $graphic_name\n"; next;
if ( /^\\textit\{(.*)\}/ )
print "CHAPTERCONTENT: $1\n"; next;
Paul Barry
Some important updates to the OpenOffice::OODoc module
Jean-Marie Gouarné contacted me via e-mail with some updates on the status of his excellent Perl module. Here's what he said:
Thanks for this article. It's very useful for evangelization about the OOo XML format... And (that is much less important) thanks for your test with my OpenOffice::OODoc module!
However, I've just 2 remarks about your quotation of this Perl module:
1) OpenOffice::OODoc *can* create new OOo files (texts, spreadsheets, presentations and drawings) from scratch; this feature is available since version 1.201 (2004-07-30). To do so, the ooDocument() constructor must be called with a create => $class option (where $class is the document class, i.e. "text", "spreadsheet", etc).
2) The module has notably evolved in the meantime; now it supports both the OpenOffice.org 1.0 and the OpenDocument formats; in addition, there are a few draw- or impress-focused methods (so, for example, such methods as insertDrawPage or appendDrawPage are available in order to organize and copy presentation slides). But you were right when you said that "the module was created with a view to working primarily with OpenOffice.org Writer files". Text documents were and remain the main target.
I thought it worthwhile to post his message here. Thanks.
Paul Barry
IT Carlow, Ireland
Paul Barry
Writing to Impress from Perl
Easy way to write to Impress/Powerpoint as Jean-Marie said:
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use OpenOffice::OODoc;
# start a new preso
my $preso = ooDocument(file => 'test.sxi', create => 'presentation');
my $slide = $preso->getDrawPage(0); # slide 0
attachment => $slide,
size => '10cm, 2cm',
position => '1cm, 2cm',
content => 'I want to write to Impress from Perl'
Programmatic Conversions?
Thanks for the great article! Do you know if there is a way to programmatically convert the resulting impress document to PowerPoint? Perhaps as in $preso->export(...)?
Or would I need to use something like the Python-UNO bridge to do so?
image extraction from pdf's
Would "pdfimages" (part of the xpdf package) have sped up the final step (extraction of images from the pdf page proofs)?
using pdfimages?
> sped up the final step?
maybe ... if I had known about it! :-)
Thanks - I'll check out pdfimages.
Paul Barry
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|2008-07-30, 17:25
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my ranking of chars upon first viewing
now it is probably
limone (omg so cute)
the more understated characters gained some more appreciation after repeated viewing
|2008-08-11, 18:26
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AOD Mania.com have finished reviewing the show:
Hopefully now that the R1s are complete more fans will give the show a try.
|2008-10-01, 19:50
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thoughts, and Dominura's eventual fate
I guess this forum is pretty quiet these days, but I thought I'd stick my oar in anyway. First of, I really liked Simoun. It's certainly one of my favorite TV anime series. I thought I'd mention that, because I'm about to be critical of some aspects of it.
I thought that what Simoun did well it did very well. I also thought that it was quite flawed in some ways. I like it a lot because I appreciate what it did well, but I am not quite as quick to let it off the hook for its failings as some people (though I do think it is one of the best anime series I've seen even given those failings). It's fine to say that it's primarily about the characters, but it promises to be about other things as well, and it breaks some of its promises. The only conclusion I can come to is that they were pressed for time and/or money, and that there was poor communication between the writers about some things. I can't help feeling that they wrote the show as they produced the episodes, and that they changed their mind a few times. I'd also be surprised if there weren't some serious disagreements between the writers that never got resolved.
EDIT: ANyway, after having criticized the series I should also praise it, as I really did like it a lot. My favorite part, by far, was the end of episode 8. I think that has to be on of my favorite sequences in all the anime I've seen. Not quite up there with the Mugen drowning scene in Champloo, but not far behind. That line of Neviriru's "tachinasai..." is just so great, and it's delivered so well. I care a lot about the voice performances and both Neviriru and Aeru were really well voiced, particularly in this scene.
On a kind of geeky note, that line of Neviriru's really reminded me of Ochoufujin (Ryuzaki Reika) in the live action "Ace wo Nerae". She's a very similar character in some respects, and her speech patterns are similar too. Though they will never do it, if they made a live action Simoun the actrees who played Ochoufujin (Matsumoto Rio) would not be a bad choice for Neviriru. She doesn't look much like her, but who does? Ueto Aya from the same series has the physical look for Aeru, but unfortunately I don't think she'd be able to carry Aeru off.
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|2008-10-01, 23:58
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some of these metaphysical/plot questions are better left unanswered. a certain degree of mystery is necessary to create surrealist distance and highlight the important things over the mundane.
|2008-10-02, 02:39
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You can't handwave enormous confusion about timelines away with the idea that it is all a matter of unexplainable metaphysics. Well, I guess you _can_, and Simoun proves that you can do so and still make a really engaging anime series. But I'm not willing to buy it, completely.
I guess I'd like to compare Simoun with Gene Wolfe's New Sun series. That's a series of books that on first reading makes you ask: "what?" They start off looking like a sort of simple, if floridly written, shounen fantasy (with a bit of refuge in audacity- the main character starts as an apprentice in the torturer's guild). By the end of the series you understand that there was another story beneath the one you were told, and that you failed to follow it. I actually read that series about 5 times back to back before I completely understood what had happened (this was before there was an internet to find spoilers on.) Then Wolfe published a fifth book that confirmed most of my suspicions.
The problem with Simoun is that it promises to be that sort of work, if a lot simpler (it is unfair to compare _any_ anime with Wolfe's books, though I'd love to see "The Fifth Head of Cerberus" animated), and it fails to deliver on that promise. I don't demand simple answers, but I want a certain degree of consistency, and Simoun failed to deliver in that respect.
That doesn't keep me from loving the series. What it did well, it did very well. I'm a big fan of Simoun- I'd put it (3rd) in the top 3 series I've seen, and I certainly think it was the best series of 2006. I actually thought it was better than Haibane Renmei, for instance, which makes me a heretic . But I think it was flawed in some respects, and my love for it can't keep me from noticing the flaws.
|2008-10-03, 03:54
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well, in simoun time itself is a theme, perhaps to make a statement about religion/belief from a sociohistorical perspective. but really, the characters' situations are all clearly presented, and that's enough for a character portrait show. when the show is over, what you remember are the characters, and that's done well enough
|2008-10-03, 08:40
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There are many positive things to say about Simoun (as well as few criticisms) but the thing I got most out of it was its depiction of lesbian relationship. The most beautiful and sacred of all relationship to me felt like the one between two females and it's all due to its androgynous nature. Who is in control, who is aggressive and who is hesistant, who desires to embrace and who desires to be embraced, who is seme and who is uke...these positions within a relationship changes over time, where that fine line between a "man" and "woman" becomes blurred to the point where it no longer matters, for such thing is ambiguous and arguably irrelevant between two females who genuinely feel for each other. It's something I've never, ever had a pleasure of experiencing in anime. Such relationship is like a beautiful tango, of both pulling and being pulled, and within that tension lies the beauty that you can't capture in words. The final scene is beautiful in that it so perfectly captures that notion without words, just through a tango between Nevril and Aeru. Soundtrack for Simoun is also one of the best.
I wouldn't say Simoun is a masterpiece, or even a brilliant work for that matter, but it certainly is unique in its take on a theme that's been so cheapened and trivialised by the industry.
|2008-10-03, 12:57
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Yep, I liked the relationships as well, and I'm not particularly a fan of yuri. Like I said, I thought that what Simoun did well it did very well. It has some flaws, but they didn't keep me from really enjoying the series. It probably wouldn't be my first recommendation for someone who wasn't already kind of into anime, just because it is kind of odd, but.. well it's the kind of thing that people who like that kind of thing will like a lot . I certainly liked it, and I have recommended it to some people.
|2008-10-03, 13:51
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|2008-10-03, 18:50
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One thing I think is interesting is the difference in budget between Japanese animation and US series. The Japanese produce most anime on a much smaller budget than US shows get, and it seems like they are on tighter deadlines too. That might explain why a lot of anime starts off well and then crashes and burns. Luckily Simoun didn't crash and burn. The ending was quite nice in a lot of ways, and I agree with gaguri that the last scene was quite nice. But I was left feeling a bit let down as well- just too many gnawing and unresolvable questions.
|2008-10-06, 04:38
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Why do I do this to myself?
I know that the melodrama and dumb story telling is going to continue (I've clicked through the future episodes a little and at the very least I know that the characters continue to get pissed over the wrong things), and I know that its going to make me rage, and I know that I'm not going to be able to look at the main characters again the same way after watching the final episode, since the mass majority of them turn into men.
Yet I feel like continuing since I hear that it gets somewhat better.
*watches episode 14*
-Waporiff only turned down Floe because he was scared of her status as a priestess? Waporiff, you pussy. You're going to do the same thing to Morinas now too. Then you'll just need to find a way to almost shack up with and then turn down Aeru and you'll have turned down all three of the best characters in the show. He should do the same with Yun just for the sake of turning down all of the best looking as well.
-Thank you, Yun. Paraietta is indeed a shitty leader that favors her friend's interests of over the group's and completely disregards the group's needs in the process. Now she just needs to tell her off for being a shitty friend. Sheltering Neviril only prolongs her problems.
I was irritated to see Paraietta as high as third place in that popularity poll, but I'm glad that her fandom doesn't seem as strong amongst the western Simoun fanbase.
-You could have made your advances somewhere a bit less risky than in the room where all of the other priestesses are sleeping.
-...Or maybe Waporiff's and Morinas's relationship will come to a mutual end.
|2008-10-06, 06:53
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I think you are in for quite a few surprises if you persevere with Simoun.
|2008-10-06, 09:56
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But stop bashing Floe. Floe is cute. And hot.
Also, sibyllea aren't really the same as nuns. As far as I can tell, all but a few of them move on from their occupation into completely different fields early in life. Its not a permanent lifestyle. (where as a nun is going to be a nun for a long, long time) Most of them don't really have the nun mentality or demeanor, either. Even their uniforms tend to be revealing, and they're certainly interested in each other. Its more "temporary noble status" bullshit.
And obviously they can get fairly close without the people that could raise hell about it taking enough notice to actually do so. Floe and Morinas would visit the spring eventually, and they'd be completely free at that point. There's no possible downsides to such a relationship as long as they don't get caught, either.
The only thing stopping him is some stupid taboo that's not going to apply forever. Passing an awesome girl that you want up over something like makes you a pussy.
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|2008-10-18, 21:08
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I actually think that the Wapourif/Morinas thing is a fairly strong part of Simoun, despite the fact that I wasn't crazy about either character. It ties into some other thematic elements quite nicely.
I don't think it's ever really implied that Wapourif would suffer serious consequences from the state if he had something to do with one of the sibyllae (and the fact that Floe makes him claim to have been her lover tends to argue against that), but I don't think that's the point. The title of ep 14 could be translated into English as "That Which Must Not Be Defiled", or "That Which Must Not Be Profaned", and it has a dual meaning here, in line with a theme that Simoun rather dextrously (pun only half-intended) weaves into a couple storylines.
Are the Simouns the chariots of the gods, or are they just machines? Are the sibyllae young girls, or are they sacred beings, or are they killers? In this sense the questions about defiling them or profaning them run through the whole series, and a lot of Simoun only makes sense once you see it in that light, IMHO. Wapourif's confusion over the issue is just the piccolos picking that theme up. By itself it wouldn't make much sense, but as a restatement in a different voice of a theme that is present through the whole series, I think it works quite well, though of course YMMV.
Also, I don't want to spoil, but Morinas makes this question fairly explicit soon after this episode.
I will say that if you're not liking Simoun by ep 14 you are probably not going to like it much better if you watch the whole thing. I'd actually say that if you weren't digging it by ep 8 (the strongest episode, IMHO), it might not be for you.
|2008-12-03, 01:34
|Link #2856
Definitely a unique piece of anime with a plot that has "depth" to it.
I love the songs, especially Aaeru's music box theme and Youen Naru Kizuna no Hibiki (the accordion melody) =] ("Oozora no Auriga" gives me goosebumps)
It's rare to hear songs with an accordion in them, so that's what make Simoun unique to me.
|2008-12-03, 06:12
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|2008-12-05, 15:51
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I'm still saying Simoun is a masterpiece. At least it is my favorite anime of all time. But even masterpieces can have flaws, or at least inconsistencies. In fact, a story that is perfect can be mechanical and emotionally dead.
The mysteries of past and future, even if insoluble -- or perhaps especially if insoluble -- give this show a mystical resonance that would otherwise be hard to achieve. Pinning them down might be like chloroforming a butterfly and pinning it to a board.
|2008-12-07, 10:27
|Link #2860
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I finished watching Simoun yesterday and I must say it's definitely one of the best shows ever made.
From the countless animes I have watched only Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop and Elfen Lied reached similar level. Seriousely many years have passed since I cried watching a movie or series yet Simoun made me cry like a kid so many times... Final two episodes are pure art and imo one of the two best anime endings ever (second being Cowboy Bebop).
I really don't know how will I get over this series, it'll most likely haunt me every day for many weeks forcing endless re-watching just like Elfen Lied did.
It really pains me that Simoun wasn't a comercial success and we'll most likely never see a manga or anime sequel, but true art is often underrated at first. Hopefully Simoun will gain fans in time, especially since most reviews from critics are very positive.
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